Hydrocarbon-burner



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EYDROGARBON BURNER;

No. 397349. Patented Feb. 12, 1889."

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HYDROOARBON BURNER.

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UNITED: STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEFFERSON PATTEN, OF GREEN POINT, NElV YORK, ASSIGNOR OF PART TO CHARLES KENNEDY HAMILTON, JR.

, OF SUMMIT, IVERS A. GARD, OF BER- GEN POINT, AND CHARLES H. MUNDY, OE ME'lVCl-IEN, NElY JERSEY.

HYDROCARBON-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming'part of Letters Patent No. 397,749, dated February 12, 1889.

Application filed March 23, 1888.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEFFERSON PATTEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at. Green Point, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hydrocarbon-Burners, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a burner for the economical and effective combustion of petroleum and other hydrocarbons, and adapted for application to a suit-able stove or fire-placeof anysuitable form or construction.

My improved burner is constructed with a retort or vaporizing-chamber, into which the hydrocarbon is introduced through a pipe controlled by a suitable valve, a steam-generating chamber filled with asbestus or other capillary material to which wateris supplied, a superheating-chamber to which the steam is conducted from the gencrating-chamber, and pipes leading from the vaporizing retort or chamber and the superheatin g steam-chamber and conducting the hydrocarbon vapor and superheated steam to a mixing pipe or nozzle, above which the vapors are burned, as here inafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a vertical longitudinal sect ion of my improved hydrocarbon-burner. Fig. II is a plan view of the pan containing asbestns to receive hydrocarbon for initial heating. Fig. III is a top view. Fig. IV is a plan view of chamber 1. Fig. V is a horizontal section on the line 5, Fig l. Fig. V1 is an elevation.

1 represents a fiat. horizontal chamber or retort, to which petroleum or other hydrocarbon is admitted through a pipe, 2, under control of a valve, 3. In the upper part ol' the retort l are any suitable number of radial ports or passages, 4., two of such passages being shown in the present illustration, which deliver the hydrocarbon vapors to conducting-pipes 5, from which horizontal pipes (l conduct said vapors to a mixing chamber or nozzle, 7, in the axis of the burner.

8 represents an annular generating-chamber filled with asbestus or other suitable capillary material, and provided with a screw- Serial No. 268,285. (No model.

cap, 9, by whichsaid capillarymaterial is compressed to an y necessary extent to regulate the passage through it of water, which is intro duced to said vaporizin g-ch amber through one or more pipes, 10, which may be connected with an ordinary domestic water service. hen the burner is in operation, steam generated in the chamber 8 is conveyed by one or more pipes, 11, to a superheating-dome, 12, from which the steam, in a superheated or it maybe decomposed state, is conducted by one or more pipes, 13, to the nozzle 1-1- in the center of the mixing-chamber 7.

Above the chamber 7 is a defloetiug-bonnet, 15, of frusto-eonical form, having an opening in its apex located at or near the center of the annular vaporizing-chamber, 8. In the lower part of the burner is a pan, 1.6,having a layer of asbestus, 16, in the bottom to receive a small quantity of oil through a nozzle, 17, under control of a stop-cock, 18, for the initial heating of the burner.

The water-supply pipe or pipes 10 are made tight in the bottom of the pan 16 by a suitable packing, jam-nnts, or other proper means.

The operation is as follows: Petroleum or 7 5 other hydrocarbon being admitted to the retort or vaporizing-chamber1 in suitable quantity through the pipe 2 and a suitable supply of water to the gencrating-cllamber 8, a small quantity of oil is admitted to the pan 16 and ignited to produce the initial heat, causing sufficient evolution of hytilrocarbon vapor through the pipe 6 ti and chamber '7 to produce a tla-me above the deflector 1 5 and quickly to generate steam in. the chamber 8, which 8 5 steam, passing up the pipes 11, is superheated in the dome 12, and thence d eseends with con-- siderable force and pressu re through the pipe 13 and jet-nozzle 14-, mingling with thehydrocarbon vapor, which, when the apparatus is in f ull operation flows in elficientvolume through the pipes 5 6 to the m iXing-chamber 7. The mixed hydrocarbon and oxyhydrogen gases passing through the chamber 7 and deflector 15 are burned with intense heat overthewhole 9 5 interior of the annular chamber 8 and above the same, imparting the necessary temperature to the entire apparatus, which thus eonstitutes a h ighly effective burner for hydrocarbon oils.

The apparatus is complete in itself, needing only the addition ol oil or watersupplies. is extremelyeompaet and convenient and well adapt ed tor use in an ordinary heating-stove or in a lire-grate in connection with artificial logs or other accessories.

burner, connected with the chamber or nozzle 7 and also With the chamber 8, andsaid chamber or nozzle 7 being also'conneeted with the va-porizing-chamber, as set forth.

3). In a liydroearbon-burner, the combination, with the 'vaporizingchamber and the mixing-chamber 7, connected therewith, of an j annular steain-generating chamber arranged Having thus described my invention, the

Following is whatI claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

i]. The combination, with the burner, the annular generator 8,1'110 hydroearlmn-vapor izer 1, and steam-dome 12, of a pipe connect.-

ing said dome and generator and pipes conneeting said (.1 mac and ll Y(.ll'O(?illl3()ll-\1P()1i7l0l' with the burner, substantially as set forth.

2. In a hydrocarbon-burner, the eombina- 1 tion, with the mixinchamber or nozzle 7 and the vaporiziug-ehainber l, and the steam-gem erating chambm- 8, arranged above said chamber 7, of the pan 10, for containing oil,arran god below said generating-011a111ber 8, and a snperheating-ehamber arranged above the I 

